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Quote: Dico "Good shout.
However earlier in the thread some of you guys shot down someone who said King offers more to a team than Penny. If you'd rather have Penny in your team than Matt King..I despair.'"


That person would be me, they agree with me really but there to proud to admit it.

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Quote: Latchford Wolvesfan "That person would be me, they agree with me really but there to proud to admit it.'"


Not me, I'll admit to anybody that I'm wrong, but I tell you now, there's no way, if I was picking the team, right now, and the criteria was,

1. Merit
2. What they offered in an attacking sense
3. What they offered in a defensive sense

Well, 100 times out of 100, I'd pick Penny every time. (And I don't think Penny is blameless, just less of a villain right now. He's also improving elements of his game, I can't think of a single improvement in Matt Kings game since he arrived.)

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Whether he's played well or not Penny would never in a million years be picked for Australia, King has, albeit on the wing.
King really wasn't as bad as people make out last year, he bagged a few tries, yardage was pretty good and when he doesn't pass half the time it's Pennys poor wingers discipline.

Still, I think everyones overreacting, I'd give it more time, if not throw Bridge at centre and King on the wing, Don't want Johnson there again tbh

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Quote: JWP "Not me, I'll admit to anybody that I'm wrong, but I tell you now, there's no way, if I was picking the team, right now, and the criteria was,

1. Merit
2. What they offered in an attacking sense
3. What they offered in a defensive sense

Well, 100 times out of 100, I'd pick Penny every time. (And I don't think Penny is blameless, just less of a villain right now. He's also improving elements of his game, I can't think of a single improvement in Matt Kings game since he arrived.)'"


I understand what you saying and i don't think that King is blameless, i just feel Penny isn't ready for 1st team football, maybe in 2 years but his game need a lot of improvement and in this day and age when Super League is getting better every year, i don't think we can afford to carry him when the stakes are so high and results matter probably know more than ever.

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Having watched it again Penny was at fault for Gardners first try as we went rushing into mid-field to assist with a tackle from which the offload led to the try. Appart from that he had an ok game. It was 16-14 when he got took off and things hardly got better.

Also, why play an Aussie wing in the centre? He got skinned by Gidley for his second and just downright poor.

Hicks/King on the Win
Bridge/Gleece in the centre

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Quote: Latchford Wolvesfan "I understand what you saying and i don't think that King is blameless, i just feel Penny isn't ready for 1st team football, maybe in 2 years but his game need a lot of improvement and in this day and age when Super League is getting better every year, i don't think we can afford to carry him when the stakes are so high and results matter probably know more than ever.'"
But you could argue, that based on performances, King isn;t ready for the first team. If he was a young local lad, he wouldn;t be getting anyone backing him.

I think many of us have defended him, wanting himto come good, but he just hasn't done that.

If we get a half break and pass the ball to King on the wing from 70m, he will get caught. Do the same with Penny, and he will score most times.

Neither of them have covered themselves in glory, but I feel that is a lack of a goo partnership rather than them not being able to tackle.

I am far more forgiving of a young developing talent, than I am of an International player on an International salary.

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Quote: Latchford Wolvesfan "I understand what you saying and i don't think that King is blameless, i just feel Penny isn't ready for 1st team football, maybe in 2 years but his game need a lot of improvement and in this day and age when Super League is getting better every year, i don't think we can afford to carry him when the stakes are so high and results matter probably know more than ever.'"


Of the two, we would have to carry Penny far less than we are carrying Matt King right now, ie, using Fridays game as a form guide. If people put Kings pedigree to one side, and judge him on the now, he wouldn't get near to your side. All the things that people hammer Penny for like tackling, positioning etc, King is weaker than Penny at, so putting him on the wing is hardly going to make these things go away.

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Quote: Robbie Rotten "IIRC, in his first game, McGuire stole the ball very cheaply from him and ran over to score? I put that down to inexperience more than anything. I vaguely remember his first games, but surely you can't be saying that King coming in meant Kev couldn't tackle? Let's be honest, at times last year people were just walking over him, I'm sure it was Leeds away that Rob Burrow ran over him to score. He just flapped and had no technique; however, towards the back end this changed, he started tackling with great technique, stopping the player and even dumping some of them in the process.

I don't want to see Kev dropped just yet unless he's going to drop King as well, seen as King was probably more guilty of defensive errors than Kev, the only thing I fear is that his confidence will be absolutely shot, as will King's, and I'm not too keen on the idea of a left side absolutely shot of confidence after game 1, but then I feel we'll batter Catalans, so I don't want them to miss out on the opportunity to get a couple of tries and so on.'"


totally different things.

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Quote: JWP "Of the two, we would have to carry Penny far less than we are carrying Matt King right now, ie, using Fridays game as a form guide. If people put Kings pedigree to one side, and judge him on the now, he wouldn't get near to your side. All the things that people hammer Penny for like tackling, positioning etc, King is weaker than Penny at, so putting him on the wing is hardly going to make these things go away.'"


There both defensively poor but i believe King has more to offer in attack, that is my reasoning for keeping him on and not Penny.

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Quote: Latchford Wolvesfan "There both defensively poor but i believe King has more to offer in attack, that is my reasoning for keeping him on and not Penny.'"


What does he offer? Guile, good hands, sidestep, pace, power, what ?

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Quote: JWP "What does he offer? Guile, good hands, sidestep, pace, power, what ?'"


He's stronger, better at making yards away from the line, more experienced in his decision making, better under the high ball.

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Quote: Latchford Wolvesfan "He's stronger, better at making yards away from the line, more experienced in his decision making, better under the high ball.'"


I'll give you the yardage.

The second bit is just daft.

The third bit, I can't recall him catching a high ball, Penny is pretty good in the air. I'd like to see us kick more to him, he scored from a high kick at home to Saints last year, did very well to ground it etc.

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Quote: Latchford Wolvesfan ", better under the high ball.'"


But he's not. How many high balls has Penny dropped? How many has King caught? Probably a very similar number. When King arrived we thought we were going to get lots of high kicks from Briers to him and for that reason you think he must be good. But we haven't seen it. I saw him catch it before it went 10m on Friday night.

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Quote: JWP "I'll give you the yardage.

The second bit is just daft.

The third bit, I can't recall him catching a high ball, Penny is pretty good in the air. I'd like to see us kick more to him, he scored from a high kick at home to Saints last year, did very well to ground it etc.'"


King wasn't fantastic, we've pretty much summed that up but he was not as weak as his winger and that's nothing to do with him being Australian.

We had 4 players under the age of 21 playing on Friday, 3 of the 4 gave it their all and really put their body on the line and you could tell they were fighting for a place.
The left side had a bad game defending the line. I don't think Penny offers anything in terms of defending the line, he is a weak link, he relys too much on King and if King does have a bad game then Penny certainly will.
We need players putting their bodies on the line, working as a unit and not relying on key players to get them out of trouble.
Riley impressed me on Friday as did Blythe as they really did put the effort in and made the most of their opportunity.
Sometimes a player has to look for the opportunity and not keep relying on players to set them up.

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How many times can a wiger put his body on the line during a game??? For the forwards its clear to see. Penny has always been enthusiastic and commited from what I have seen.

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